Twitter has injected some new features into the micro-blogging site in an effort to lure more developers, partners and - most importantly - users to the service.
The privately-held company said in a blog post yesterday that it had "simplified the design" of Twitter. In fact, the firm appears to be morphing the service into …

Indeed.. it was a fantastic program both on the desktop and on phones with regular updates and features people liked (deck.ly for one!) and prior to this the only update I've seen in roughly six months has been to remove deck.ly and image previews from tweets. It's made worse by the fact prior to the buyout they had mentioned a completely new version for Android as the old look had been the same for quite a while with no real improvements and now that, like many other changes, has been canned apparently. Way to go Twitter! Just kill it off if you're going to turn it into a clone of your official (and utterly useless) mobile client.

I checked out Tweetdeck...

by "redesign"...

...do they mean a _new_ redesign coming up, or the current redesign which makes the site run dog-slow, and gag on reloads, and choke on tweets half the time? (most common Twitter alert message: "oops! We did something wrong.") And, is the pop-up message about their new "activity" feature -- which won't go away and stay away -- also part of this?

Oh, and I also saw my first tweet spam -- uh, sorry, "sponsored tweets" -- last week. Way to go, guys.